The Quote Is Over Budget. What Can We Change Without Compromising the Design or Doing Weeks of Unpaid Redesign?
$99.00 GST
The tender comes back over budget. The client wants savings by Friday, the builder has a list of cuts, and nobody has asked who pays for the redesign. Most of us reach for the drawings first, and that is often the wrong place to start.
This one hour over budget tender CPD course is for registered architects, practice principals, project architects, contract administrators and residential designers. Four short modules, two case studies and a ten question quiz, with your certificate saved to your dashboard.
Description
By the end of this course, you will be able to diagnose why a quote has come in over budget, read the quote for where the cost actually sits, reduce cost in the order that protects the design idea, and run the reconciliation as one scoped, priced and authorised round rather than weeks of unpaid redesign. The organising idea is diagnosis before treatment: of the four usual causes of a high tender, a design genuinely beyond the money, a budget that was never a tested estimate, a market that has moved, and documentation whose gaps were priced as risk, only one is cured by changing the building. The course starts with those four causes and with sizing the gap honestly. It then reads the quote as a document: the trade breakdown and its outliers, preliminaries and why they follow the programme rather than the floor area, form and the expensive perimeter, the structure and services nobody sees, and why finishes attract the first conversation and rarely deserve it. The third module is an order of operations, from closing out the documentation and hidden specification, through simpler junctions, repetition and buildability, to staging and deferral that does not strand the client. The last module covers scoping one reconciliation round with a fee and a stop trigger, who pays for the rework, options a client can genuinely decide between, the compliance and consent floor that is not available for trading, and reissuing the documents so the saving survives into construction. Two case studies and ten practice scenarios close it out.
This CPD provides general guidance on practice management and design process. It does not constitute cost advice or legal advice and does not replace a quantity surveyor, a cost planner or project-specific contractual obligations.
